TRADITION in a Sentence

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Indeed, in traditional High Church fashion, they were not ashamed to announce their belief in the divine-right nature of bishops.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRADITION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tradition
 n.  thought or behavior followed from generation to generation; heritage
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Scarlett knew that family tradition would forcibly restrain many of these people from such a struggle-- with the making of money admittedly its aim.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  The first tradition, repeated in scores of magazines every month, is that the American village remains the one sure abode of friendship, honesty, and clean sweet marriageable girls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  This is how people keep up the tradition of the perfect home-town, the happy boyhood, the brilliant college friends.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
8  The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
9  The scout alludes to a tradition which is.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  'Tis a long and melancholy tradition, and one I little like to think of; for it is not to be denied that the evil has been mainly done by men with white skins.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
11  And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
14  They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
15  It has brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
16  The Baltics' own democratic traditions would help them to regain their rightful place in Europe.
17  She was fiercely proud of family traditions and continuity.
18  Free enterprise, he argued, was compatible with Russian values and traditions.
19  He said that he was going to stick with the traditions established by his grandfather.
20  The Visitors' Centre amalgamates the traditions of the Old World with the technology of the New.
21  That cultural tendencies linger in hereditary religious traditions.
22  Migrants applying for Australian citizenship will have to know about the traditions of indigenous people and the colors of the nation's flag in tests.
23  This institute was opened in 1967 and inherited the pedagogical institution traditions that had been in place earlier in the Republic.
24  Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.
25  Patterns of public administration and government are superimposed on traditional societies.
26  Indeed, in traditional High Church fashion, they were not ashamed to announce their belief in the divine-right nature of bishops.
27  The traditional approach has tended to regard unemployment and inflation as being inversely related.
28  We assume that competent doctors emerge at the end of an obstacle course of traditional examinations based on facts.
29  The older generation prefer a darker and more traditional kind of clothing.
30  This village has its own traditional dress, cuisine, folklore and handicrafts.